Landfill Siting Using Geographic Information Systems: A Demonstration

Siddiqui, Muhammad Z.; Everett, John W.; Vieux, Baxter E.

doi:10.1061/(asce)0733-9372(1996)122:6(515)

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“…Examples of such factors include government and municipal funding, government regulation, social and environmental factors, concerns for public health, growing environmental awareness, reduced land availability for landfills and increasing political and social opposition to the establishment of landfill sites [6][7][8][9]. In the 1930s, the United States was one of the countries that saw the earliest changes in the development of sanitary landfills through depositing the solid waste in layers, compacting it, and then covering it with soil on a daily basis.…”

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Soil Characteristics in Selected Landfill Sites in the Babylon Governorate, Iraq

Chabuk¹,

Al‐Ansari²,

Hussain³

et al. 2017

JCEA

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Abstract:The Babylon Governorate is situated in the middle of Iraq. It covers an area of 5,315 km 2 and has 2,092,998 inhabitants distributed throughout its five major cities (Qadhaa). Presently, there is no landfill site in the governorate that meets the environmental criteria for the disposal of municipal and industrial waste. Consequently, GIS (geographic information system) and methods of multi-criteria decision making were used here to select the best sites in each city in the Babylon Governorate that would fulfil the environmental requirements. Two sites were chosen in each city. As the groundwater is very shallow in this area, the design should ensure against groundwater pollution by leachate from these sites. To avoid this problem, soil investigation was conducted at these sites so that the most suitable landfill design could be accomplished. The results of soil investigation in these sites include the soil profile, groundwater depth, chemical properties, allowable bearing capacity, Atterberg limits test results and material characteristics of the soil strata. From the research, it is believed that the best design is one that puts the landfill above ground.

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Soil Characteristics in Selected Landfill Sites in the Babylon Governorate, Iraq

Chabuk¹,

Al‐Ansari²,

Hussain³

et al. 2017

JCEA

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“…Appropriate allocation of landfills involves the selection of areas that are suitable for waste disposal. With regards to waste management, site selection studies reported in the literature cover the allocation of urban solid waste landfills (Lane and McDonald, 1983;Chang and Wang, 1993;Lober, 1995;Siddiqui et al, 1996;Kao et al, 1997;Leao et al, 2001 and2004;Themistoklis et al, 2005;Al-Jarrah and AbuQdais, 2006), hazardous solid waste centers (Canter, 1991 andKoo et al, 1991), and recycling operation facilities (Lober, 1995 andHokkanen andSalminen, 1997), etc. The present work describes a type of multicriteria evaluation (MCE) method called weighted linear combination (WLC) in a GIS environment to evaluate the suitability of the outskirts of Gorgan city (Iran) for landfill.…”

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Siting MSW landfills with a weighted linear combination methodology in a GIS environment

Mahini

Gholamalifard

2006

Int. J. Environ. Sci. Technol.

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ABSTRACT:Landfill has been taken to the bottom of the hierarchy of options for waste disposal but has been the most used method for urban solid waste disposal. However, landfill has become more difficult to implement because of its increasing cost, community opposition, and more restrictive regulations regarding the siting and operation of landfills. Land is a finite and scarce resource that needs to be used wisely. Appropriate allocation of landfills involves the selection of areas that are suitable for waste disposal. The present work describes a type of multi-criteria evaluation (MCE) method called weighted linear combination (WLC) in a GIS environment to evaluate the suitability of the study region for landfill. The WLC procedure is characterized by full tradeoff among all factors, average risk and offers much flexibility than the Boolean approaches in the decision making process. The relative importance weights of factors are estimated using the analytical hierarchy process (AHP). In the final aggregated suitability image, zones smaller than 20 hectares are eliminated from the allocation process. Afterwards, the land suitability of a zone is determined by calculating the average of the suitability of the cells belonging to that zone, a process called zonal land suitability. The application of the presented method to the Gorgan city (Iran) indicated that there are 18 zones for landfill with their zonal land suitability varying from 155.426117 to 64.149024. The zones were ranked in descending order by the value of their zonal land suitability. The results showed the use of GIS as a decision support system (DSS) available to policy makers and decision makers in municipal solid waste (MSW) management issues.

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“…from a variety of sources. It efficiently stores, retrieves, analyzes and displays information according to userdefined specifications [34]. Settlement areas were subdivided into two layers.…”

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“…The buffer distances for towns and villages within a population greater than 500 people were determined as 1000 m, for all other identified centers of population as 500 m and for private residences, businesses, social and community buildings as 250 m by Cantwell [36]. Siddiqui [34] suggested that no new landfill site should be located closer than 0.4 km from a collection of ten or more houses. On the other hand, the landfill site should be located within 10 km of an urban area due to the economic consid-erations [37].…”

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Al-Mseiab Qadaa Landfill Site Selection Using GIS and Multicriteria Decision Analysis

Alanbari¹,

Al‐Ansari²,

Jasim³

et al. 2014

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Solid waste management is becoming a more serious problem with time especially in developing countries like Iraq. It is not regulated sufficiently in Iraq. At present, there are various techniques used for solid waste management such as landfill, thermal treatment, biological treatment, recycling etc. The landfill is the most common mode for the disposal of solid waste. There are no regulations for landfill site selection which is quite complex process. In this study, landfill site selection was performed by using Multicriteria Decision Analysis (MCDA) and Geographic Information System (GIS) for the Al-Mseiabqadaa. Even in the case of existing landfills in this qadaa, it's temporary or non-conforming to the environmental condition. In order to determine landfill site that is good for the inhabitants and the environment several criteria (e.g. as Urban centers, Land use, Airports, Pipes, Power lines, Railways, Roads, Slope, Streams, Surface water, Industrial areas, Oil pipes, Liquid gas pipes, Soil types) were used to select the proper site. The MCDA was used to measure the relative importance weighting for each criterion used. Each map layer was formed with the aid of GIS and final suitability map was created by overlay analyses of each criterion map. According to obtained results, high and low suitable areas were determined in the study area. Field checks were also performed to determine the accuracy and suitability of candidate site.

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Landfill Siting Using Geographic Information Systems: A Demonstration

Cited by 319 publications

References 5 publications

Soil Characteristics in Selected Landfill Sites in the Babylon Governorate, Iraq

Soil Characteristics in Selected Landfill Sites in the Babylon Governorate, Iraq

Siting MSW landfills with a weighted linear combination methodology in a GIS environment

Al-Mseiab Qadaa Landfill Site Selection Using GIS and Multicriteria Decision Analysis

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